>> After many years of stick shifts, it can be hard getting used to an automatic.
>> Left-foot braking should be used and there have been numerous reports of older drivers stamping
>> on the wrong pedal, sometimes with fatal results.
>>
Since getting our Jazz CVT I always left foot brake. Once your brain gets used to sending the right signal to your left foot (about 4 or 5 days for me) it's just as instinctive as using the right foot.
I went for a test drive in an M-B A Class 150 CVT the other day and the dealer was astonished at my using left foot braking. (Did not buy it, BTW.- one name in the V5 and an odd hiatus of it having two MOTs within 4 months and 850 miles, which I queried by email a day later, caused the dealer to respond "don't worry about the car it's potentially sold"!
It's still listed on Autotrader a week later !!!
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